Why does working in ArcGIS always make me want to pull my hair out? I've been working for months trying to get a elevation map of the Western United States so that I can relate areas of high pollution in close proximity to places with mountains and for some reason an elevation map of the US that I can use in ArcGIS does not exists. Or only pieces of it exists and the most important pieces either don't site correctly (with the Oregon coast sitting somewhere in the middle of Nevada) or they just don't want to show up. So I've resigned myself to putting hundreds of little DEM maps together to form the Western US only now to struggle with the mapping program not wanting to put them together properly. I'll place hundreds of little maps together, tell them to create a single map of them, and then only end up with pieces of the west coast. GRRRRRRR . . . .
So tell me this, my faithful ESRI friends (who I love dearly and cherish) why is it so hard to get a map with elevation on it for a simple, VERY simple map? I just need mountains. That's all. There are pictures of them all over the stinking internet, but to get a decent one of the US seems like asking someone to pull your hair out, individually, with a pair of tweezers. The process is leaving me drained and frustrated and now I just need a cookie (and maybe a milkshake too).
Great . . . . now the program just crashed.
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